hello everyone, it is 1:00 on the east coast. let s get straight to the news. your paycheck and benefits may be cut and your taxes may go up all because congress can t agree on another very important issue, that is payroll tax cuts. congress is in a political standoff right now. the senate passed a two-month extension a moment ago. house republicans rejected that in a procedural vote and are pushing a one year extension. keep in mind payroll tax cuts and extended unemployment benefits expire in less than two weeks. our members do not want to just punt and do a two-month short term fix where we have to come back and do this again. we re here, we re willing to work. it s just a radical tea party republicans who are holding up this tax cut for the american people and jeopardizing our economic growth. but what s the real problem? we ll talk to republican strategist ron christy to get answers. if you re heading west, check the forecast. people in a number of states are d
years in the making and is detailed in a 22-page letter to the maricopa county attorney. detailing a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against latinos at the mcso, the maricopa county sheriff s office that reaches the highest level of the agency. sheriff arpaio s own actions have helped nurture a culture of bias. found latino drivers are four to nimz more likely than non-latino drivers and more documenting detention officers at the sheriff s jail using offensive slurs and profanities calling them wetbacks, stupid mexicans and slurs we can t mention on the air. according to the civil rights division they re reviewing allegations that sheriff arpaio s department failed to investigate hundreds of alleged sexual assaults and child molestation cases. many of the victims apparently were latinos. earlier this year, when 360 s ed lavandera spoke with sheriff arpaio he spoke as himself as a victim. have they spoke to you what an abuse of power is? i don t know what
hello, everyone. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the republican candidates for president have just finished debating in iowa. this is important, because it s the last day before the iowa caucuses, just 19 days away. and while newt gingrich remains the national front-runner, he has been losing steam. take a look at the latest poll. this is a gallup poll that shows in the beginning of december, just ten days ago, 37% of republican voters say they will pick newt. 22% picked mitt romney. but here s how it looks now. newt s number has dropped to 29%. romney, as no doubt he s incredibly frustrated by, remains the same. but it doesn t go down, remains around the same, 24%. as we ve seen in this race, anything can happen in the next few weeks. the swings have been dramatic and certainly didn t require 19 days. so how did the candidates do at the debate tonight? game changers? joining us now, john avalon, contributor. david frum, former speechwriter for george w. bush, and ron chr
this is t.j. back in atlanta. you hearing me okay? arwa damon is not hearing me right now. arwa damon one of a number of cnn correspondents who spent a lot of time in iraq over the last several years reporting there literally from the very beginning of that war and throughout. we ll try to get her back in a moment. a historic day we saw even though a few thousand american service members in iraq. they will make their way out, many of them this weekend and, again, formally, it is over. let me turn to our zain verjee. the whole world, zain, she s joining me from london. the whole world watched this event today. what is the world saying now that it s over? well, there s been a lot of reaction today, as you can imagine. it s been eight years, eight months and 26 days. and a lot of blood, sweat and tears on both the sides of the american people, as well as the iraqi people. let me give you an idea. the guardian. has this headline. the u.s. troops are pulling out, but what have
i m erin burnett. outfront, breaking news, federal failure. gridlock reigns in washington once again. now the payroll tax cut proposal passes the republican house. so why do we say failure? well, the republican bill, included a controversial oil pipeline that the president has said he would veto. so, pass, smash. we re at square one. congress again playing chicken with the clock. there are just 18 days left until the tax cut expires. if it does, the average american will pay about a thousand dollars more in taxes next year. now, this may not be economic armageddon. but because the tax cut is popular for everyone, both parties want to pass it. so why are they failing? the bottom line, in one afternoon we found a way to compromise and get this done with the help of robert and williams at the nonpartisan tax policy center. here goes, what we call a decent proposal. if you extended the payroll tax cut for only people making under $75,000 a year, the price tag would be about $48